, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Green Economy inquiry - Panel 7 - Case Study 2 - Pembrokeshire
Okay. Wendy, have you got a view on that?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Green Economy inquiry - Panel 7 - Case Study 2 - Pembrokeshire
Okay. And the Welsh Government has talked about clean growth hubs. Have you had discussions with the Welsh Government on that, and what should they do?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Green Economy inquiry - Panel 7 - Case Study 2 - Pembrokeshire
Okay. I might come back to that in a second. Can I ask David about those UK Government schemes that you've mentioned? Are they going to need changing? We could see a change of Government. Are the schemes themselves going to need changing or refocusing to meet…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Green Economy inquiry - Panel 7 - Case Study 2 - Pembrokeshire
Wendy, do you want to say anything to that?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Green Economy inquiry - Panel 7 - Case Study 2 - Pembrokeshire
Can I ask where you think the Welsh Government should focus its limited spending power on green and renewable energy projects?
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: The First Minister
I was proud to not support in this Chamber the vote of no confidence in Lee Waters when he was Deputy Minister for transport. I was proud to vote against a vote of no confidence in our health Minister, Eluned Morgan, who has done incredible work in the health…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Diolch. I recently met with the daughter of a constituent, her father, who died waiting for an ambulance in 2022. The daughter subsequently complained to the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales for the way that the call had been handled. The ombudsman found…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
6. Will the Cabinet Secretary make a statement on call-response strategies in the Welsh Ambulance Services University NHS Trust? OQ61187
, Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Education: Consultation on the School Year
I just wanted to draw a focus on the impacts of what the change might have meant. I did post a video on my Facebook page asking people who live in Caerphilly what they thought, and it was very much mixed, which reflects the responses you got. One of the…
, Plenary
Debate: The Infected Blood Inquiry Report
I remember the day eight years ago, I was sitting next to Julie Morgan in this Chamber, and it was just after lunch time, and she said, 'There's a cross-party group I'm chairing, would you come and meet some of your constituents who are affected by this…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
I was reading just the other day about the futureproofing fund the Welsh Government is introducing. Can he give us more detail about how that's going to benefit businesses in such areas as the retail and leisure sectors in Caerphilly, Ystrad Mynach and…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
2. Will the First Minister provide an update on Welsh Government support for businesses in Caerphilly? OQ61210
, Finance Committee
First Supplementary Budget 2024-25: Evidence session with the Senedd Commission
I'll look forward to seeing you in October now.
, Finance Committee
First Supplementary Budget 2024-25: Evidence session with the Senedd Commission
No, we're not worried about the supplementary budget in February. That will be a tidying-up exercise that's more likely to be, actually, returning money than spending it. But you don't want to be in the position where you're returning money either; you want…
, Finance Committee
First Supplementary Budget 2024-25: Evidence session with the Senedd Commission
Yes. But the important thing is that we still adhere to the principles of the Finance Committee. We need to do a piece of work to decide and present and show that there would be a saving from insourcing, and I think that needs to be a discussion we have more…
, Finance Committee
First Supplementary Budget 2024-25: Evidence session with the Senedd Commission
I think the fact that the £315,000 was not required as a supplementary—it was done within the funds, and without recourse to the Welsh consolidated fund—is an example of that. The fact that we're coming to you now with this, additional to the supplementary…
, Finance Committee
First Supplementary Budget 2024-25: Evidence session with the Senedd Commission
That was done in the way I described earlier, in the £315,000. I was a county councillor for 10 years and I was elected in 2007, when the financial crisis hit, so all I've known is this. You set yourselves those principles from the beginning, don't you? I…
, Finance Committee
First Supplementary Budget 2024-25: Evidence session with the Senedd Commission
Without this, the next stage of trade union negotiations would be undermined, I think. I don't want to speak for Ed, because he's in the process of negotiating, so I will take the pressure off Ed; he's got a job to do. But as far as I'm concerned, if we don't…
, Finance Committee
First Supplementary Budget 2024-25: Evidence session with the Senedd Commission
My first answer, having known about this, having studied this area, is it's inevitable that existing staff will then be stretched—it's inevitable that that's the case. But I don't want to speak for the head of paid service, because that is a staff management…
, Finance Committee
First Supplementary Budget 2024-25: Evidence session with the Senedd Commission
Interestingly, one of the first things I asked when I was elected as a Commissioner was for an organogram, a structure of the organisation. I wanted to understand clearly how this Commission organisation is structured. I think there are 531 staff, and what…
, Finance Committee
First Supplementary Budget 2024-25: Evidence session with the Senedd Commission
Yes, absolutely. I think the only way you can do that, as you said, is with dialogue. I was telling Manon yesterday I wrote a whole PhD and I visited the library about three times in the time I wrote it. All the resources were electronic and available that…
, Finance Committee
First Supplementary Budget 2024-25: Evidence session with the Senedd Commission
I think the Senedd Commission staff should be given credit as well, and my predecessor, Ken Skates, and the whole Commission team, actually, for finding that in the budget without recourse to additional requests on the Welsh consolidated fund. I think it's…
, Finance Committee
First Supplementary Budget 2024-25: Evidence session with the Senedd Commission
I think it was 3 per cent.
, Finance Committee
First Supplementary Budget 2024-25: Evidence session with the Senedd Commission
The problem with inflation is that it's a movable figure. The Office for National Statistics have made a prediction today. You've got to be able to have flexibility in your budget in order to account for inflationary changes. We had that flexibility in the…
, Finance Committee
First Supplementary Budget 2024-25: Evidence session with the Senedd Commission
I don't want to anticipate the draft budget, and, as I've said, I've come to this in the last month or so. So, those kinds of discussions, historically, I've not been party to. I'm more than happy to have discussions with Members about what they think should…
